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Despite the fact that Shakespeare is mostly known for its tragedian playwrights, yet, in The Taming Of The Shrew, he once again proves that he is capable to write anything even comedy. The Taming Of The Shrew is a play within a play. ... As one of the main characters, Katherine is called a shrew, even by her father Baptista, but Katherine has a deeper character than what she seems to appear. ... She alters dramatically from the bitter accursed shrew to the obedient and happy wife when she discover that her husband loves her enough to attempt to change her for her own good, as well for his. ... He is the harried father, having difficulty marrying his two daughters because one of them is a shrew. He is not, an object of sympathy, since Katherine is a shrew because of his treatment of her. ... Petruchio is taming his wife as he is would tame an animal. However, Petruchio continues his taming. ... The climax of the main plot is therefore, when the shrew is tamed, although she was never a real shrew. ... After all she agrees with him that the sun is the moon"…be it moon, or sun, or what you please to call it a rush-candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me"(The Taming Of The Shrew, Act IV-scene V, lines15-17, pg. ... Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeares Taming Of The Shrew.
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